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You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.


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BILL GATES If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good ...
BILL GATES Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to d...
BILL GATES TV historically has been a broadcast medium in which everybody's picking from a finite number of cha...
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